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J. A. PARK.

' BUCKLE.

(Model.)

Patented June 13, 1882.

[711/6 nior.

UNITED STATES JAMES A. PARK, OF LANSING, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR TO EDWARD W. SPAR- ROW, OF SAME PLACE.

BUCKLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 259,650, dated June 13, 1882.

Application filed March 30, 1882. (ModeL) T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES A. PARK, of the city of Lansing, in the county of Ingham, State of Michigan, have invented a new and Improved Buckle, which I term a Loop- Buckle, and which has never been before known or used in this or any foreign country, to my knowledge; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawin gs, which are a part of this specification, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

Figure l is a perspective view of my loopbuckle. Fig. 2 is a perspective View of an ordinary harness-snap, having a short strap of leather passed through the eye thereof.

My invention has for its object to furnish a buckle by which one end of a strap may be made fast to a snap-ring or other thing withoutriveting or sewing.

K in the drawing Fig. 1 represents an iron loop to one of the shorter sides of which is hinged, at c, anotheriron loop, H, the shorter sides of the two loops being at right angles with each other. The loop H is large enough to close down over the loop K as far as the lug L,which supports the free end thereof. The lower longer side of the loop K semicircles at F the pin or lug E of the loop II when the buckle is on a strap.

To use the loop-buckle I raise up the free end of the loop H and pass the end of the strap A through the loop K until the hole 0 is directly under the end of the pin E. I then shut down the loop H and the pin E passes through the hole 0, and the end thereof rests behind the lower bar of the loop K in the semicircular slot F. Ithen pass the other end, P, of the strap first above the bar upon which is the pin E,

thence under the top bar of the loop K, and on through over the opposite bar of the loop H, drawing it through till the snap is brought close up to the buckle. The snap can only be gotten oEt' of the strap by pulling the strap out from over the loop H.

I need not use any lug at L necessarily, since the strap below and the strap above the loop H, when the buckle is in use, will keep it in position. It also answers my purpose to have a hole in the lower long side of the loop K to receive the end of the pin E and support it when the buckle is in use; but I can more easily cast the loop with the semicircular slot F.

The projections c c which form the hinge on the side of the loop K, I cast open, so that the round hinge-bar of the loop H will easily slip in between them, and then I close the lugsco together around the hinge-bar of the loop H, so as to form the hinge and keep the two loops in proper relative positions.

I make my buckle of malleable iron or other suitable metal, and of various sizes to fit various sizes of straps; and I use my buckle more particularly to fasten rung-straps, or tiestraps, or halter-straps, lines, reins, and the like, to snaps, rings, 850.

Having thus fully described my invention, whatI claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A buckle consisting of the combination, with the loop K, provided with a semicircular portion, F, of the loop H, provided with a lug, E, and adapted to embrace the loop K, to which it is pivoted at one end, substantially asset forth.

JAMES A. PARK.

Witnesses:

T. B. THRIFT, G. W. R001. 

